According to a recent New York Times article, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared the Islamic Republic of Iran to be a “military dictatorship.” She said that “we will always defend ourselves, and we will always defend our friends and allies, and we will certainly defend countries who are in the Gulf who face the greatest immediate nearby threat from Iran.” But one must question why the United States has “allies” in a war that is being fought against a non-conventional army, or why the US feels the need to intervene in the Middle East at all (if oil is the issue, all government needs to do is lower taxes and allow the private sector to compete on creating a new, renewable energy source).
Furthermore, the United States is now proposing a new United Nations Security Council Resolution “that names specific companies and the wide web of assets…to increase the cost for those who do business with Iran so much that they would cut off ties.” Not only is the United States interfering in global free markets, but it is only giving Iran another reason to hate the West. Rather than compromising with Iran, the policies our government is pursuing will strengthen hatreds which already exists and even create enemies where we had none before.
Iran turning into a military dictatorship? Does she mean like before when the U.S put the Shah in power 50 some years ago?
Also sounds a lot like Bush rhetoric before we went into Iraq. You know, Saddam being a "dictator" and all...
Yeah, it sounds like it's just a switch in propaganda. After all, until very recently, they were supposed to be an irrational theocracy with no sense of self-preservation. Maybe "military dictatorship" works better in whatever our gov't is planning to get us to war with them.
A resolution is a waste of time even if the people in the country are living under a military dictatorship, it is all talk with esentially no meaning. Rather than intervene and talk bad about the regime we should just come out and say we stand on the side of the people attempting to reform their government over there.
Essentially, that's what I personally advocate for, for several good reasons.
1) It shows that we, as a country that firmly believes in liberty, also like to see liberty upheld abroad.
2) *We're not using our military or threatening words!* This is crucial to our foreign policy. It's non-interventionism at its best because we're only using words and no actual threats to another state's existence.
3) If the revolution takes over the government, they will see us as friends in the international arena due to our vehement dislike for the old regime and our good wishes for the new.
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